• uphillbothways@kbin.social
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    I read all the theories. All I can muster is ‘oh no, not Russia’s pipeline.’ Seems like however you cut it, Russia did this to themselves by invading Ukraine. They were kind of on a more decent path towards meaningful integration for a minute. Would have been good for common Russians and everyone else if they’d stayed on that path. But, instead their leadership decided on extreme aggression.

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        Doesn’t really matter who paid for it so long as it’s intent is to send oil/gas one way and huge amounts of money the other way.

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          It does matter, as Germany is a NATO member, and the pipelines were critical infrastructure and blowing them up would be an act of war.

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            Because it wasn’t blown up because of who funded it but rather who it benefits most. I’m not saying it’s right but it’s at least a save thought.

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      It is (or rather was, before America destroyed it) also German infrastructure, it’s not just “Russia’s pipeline”.

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      If America did blow up the pipelines, it would have been a NATO country blowing up critical infrastructure (an act of war) of another NATO country (Germany).

      That would, in fact, be a very fucking big deal.

    • ☭ Blursty ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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      Spot the yank. You terrorist scumbags started this war to “weaken Russia” and carried out this sabotage to make sure Europeans were forced to buy your stinking environmentally destructive LPG. It was Russia and Europe’s pipeline.

      You can’t compete in the free market, you can’t compete in war with anyone, so all you’ve got is bullshit like this and terrorist scumbaggery.